U+A76C "Ꝭ" Latin Capital Letter Is Unicode Character

U+A76C "Ꝭ" Latin Capital Letter Is is a historical typographic ligature representing the Latin word "IS," once used in medieval and early modern manuscripts as a scribal abbreviation to save space. It belongs to the Latin Extended-D block, which contains various pre-composed letter forms from ancient and medieval scripts. This character is distinct from the regular letters I and S, functioning as a single glyph that compactly signifies the two-letter word. Though rarely needed in modern text, it is encoded for scholarly reproduction of historical documents, particularly those from Old English or Irish contexts where such abbreviations were common.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A76C
Version Added	5.1
Name	Latin Capital Letter Is
Block	Latin Extended-D
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ꝭ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ꝭ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEA 0x9D 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA76C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A76C
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua76c

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Uppercase	Yes
Simple Lowercase Code Point	"ꝭ" U+A76D Latin Small Letter Is
Lowercase Code Point	"ꝭ" U+A76D Latin Small Letter Is
Simple Case Folding	"ꝭ" U+A76D Latin Small Letter Is
Case Folding	"ꝭ" U+A76D Latin Small Letter Is
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ꝭ" U+A76D Latin Small Letter Is
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ꝭ" U+A76D Latin Small Letter Is
Script	Latin
Script Extensions	Latin
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break	Upper